Exploring Social Movements

Theories, Experiences, and Trends
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77192-2
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument of social change including assertion of identity and protest against marginalisation. This book describes three major domains – conceptual, experiential, and the impact of globalisation on social movements. The volume begins by locating social movements within broad and contemporary social processes and explores the intrinsic and complex patterns of dynamics among state, market, and social movements from a critical sociological perspective. It explains the meaning, basic features, origins and types, leadership and ideology, and perspectives of social movements and probes into major experiences of eight social movements in India, namely, peasant and farmers, tribal, Naxalite and Maoist, Dalit, working class, women, ethnic, and environmental movements. This book also analyses the role of information technology, media, and civil society in the spread and continuation of such movements. The experiences of queer, new religious, anti-systemic, and anti-displacement movements would also help readers understand how globalisation has offered new avenues of protest to diverse sections of the population. Lessons of anti-globalisation movements across the world provide a futuristic perspective in assessing the strength of social movements in a global society.

This book will be useful to the students, researchers, and faculty working in the field of political science, sociology, gender studies, and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghosh, Biswajit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Boxes vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures x

List of Contributors xi

Preface and Acknowledgements xv

PART I

Social Movements: Conceptual Dimensions 1

1 Understanding Social Movements: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues 3

BISWAJIT GHOSH AND RABINDRA GARADA

2 Typology of Social Movements 31

JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE

3 Intrinsic Dynamics of State, Market, and Social Movements 57

SUBHASIS BANDYOPADHYAY

4 Social Change through Social Movements: Role of Leadership and Ideology 75

SWATAHSIDDHA SARKAR

5 Kernel of Social and Protest Movements in Liberal Democracy 95

RABINDRA GARADA

PART II

Social Movements in India 119

6 From Peasant to Farmers’ Movement: The Changing Agrarian Dynamics in India 121

JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE

7 Tribal Movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India 148

CHANDAN KUMAR SHARMA AND BHASWATI BORGOHAIN

8 Movements of Radical Marxists: From Naxalism to Maoism 173

BISWAJIT GHOSH

9 Dalit Movements: Typologies and Trajectories 194

VIVEK KUMAR

10 Movements of Organised and Unorganised Labour 215

BISWAJIT GHOSH AND TANIMA CHOUDHURI

11 A Trajectory of Women’s Movement in India 238

RITU SEN CHAUDHURI

12 Ethnic Movements 261

BISWAJIT GHOSH

13 Intractable Conflicts: Environmental Struggles in Neoliberal India 285

SHOMA CHOUDHURY LAHIRI

PART III

Globalisation and Social Movements 305

14 Globalisation, Technology, Media, and Social Movements 307

STHITAPRAGYAN RAY AND NEHA OJHA

15 Genealogies of Queer Activism Around the Globe 326

BANHISHIKHA GHOSH

16 Rise of New Religious Movements in the Global Scenario 349

RAJEEV DUBEY

17 Anti-systemic Movements from Global to Local: Concepts, Frameworks, and Practice 367

SUMIT SAURABH SRIVASTAVA

18 Displacement, Development, and Movements: Contemporary Concerns 386

PANKAJ KUMAR

19 Anti-globalisation Movements 407

SHWETA SHUKLA

Index 431

Über Autor(innen)

Biswajit Ghosh has recently retired as the Vice Chancellor of The University of Burdwan, West Bengal. Being a Professor of Sociology, he taught, supervised, and conducted research on certain emergent issues of the discipline of Sociology for 37 years. He studied in The University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also served as a Visiting Faculty in many universities. He has authored 107 articles, including reviews, e-contents, and study modules, and written three major policy documents of UNICEF, Govt. of West Bengal, and Save the Children. He has edited/written the following five books: Social Movement: Concepts, Issues and Experiences from India (2020), Methodology of Research in Sociology (2018, Inflibnet e-book), Social Movements (2018, Inflibnet e-book), Interrogating Development: Discourses on Development in India Today (2012), and Pariveshvidya (2012, The University of Burdwan). He was a Module Coordinator of UGC E-Pathshala e-content on Research Methodology and Social Movement Courses in Sociology. He is in the editorial board of many reputed journals.